Art Quote by Geoff Dyer

“Nude paintings and sculptures are called "art" only in the museums.. Outside of the museums, It is "Absurdity" and "Vulgarity". To respect your own…

— Himmilicious

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

“Art is sanctioned pornography”

— Stewart Home

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with…

— Kenneth Clark

The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.

— Mason Cooley

“The big problem with pornography is defining it. You can't just say it's pictures of people naked. For example, you have these primitive African…

— Dave Barry

Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures…

— Susan Sontag

I think it's sad that we live in a world where men can steal and distribute and publish photos of women without their permission…

— Marie Calloway

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow…

— Kenneth Clark

Photographs have always been the tar baby of censors and obscenity laws. Literature can certainly (if it's any good) conjure up the most pornographic…

— Susie Bright

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must…

— Man Ray

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.

— Marlene Dumas